There are definitely some ways Trump could have stuck to his guns. No amnesty, no budget deal without a wall, etc. But Trump is pressured by polls, media, big business, and the GOP establishment, and some of this is a calculation about popular support. https://twitter.com/PaleHominid/status/950842668229242880 …
The man is not an idiot, despite what the media would have you think. His ideology is not extremely consistent, but it's not completely random either. It's more consistent than most pols. He has been consistently in favor of American manufacturing and jobs for decades.
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As for going along with Congress, you have to realize that he can't get much done without their support, and they've been hostile from the beginning
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Congress didn't force him to not repeal NAFTA or not repeal DACA and they haven't made him get into pointless twitter fights that kill him in the polls while demoralizing his supporters and alienating the middle.
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The Twitter fights haven't actually done much to him. You're buying the media crap here. As for DACA and NAFTA, that's all about the polling. If it were just 60% in favor of DACA, he wouldn't do it. All presidents are like this.
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Don't fall into the trap where you start believing that everything the media says is a lie or that all polls are false. Obviously they're trying to take Trump down, but there is a huge constituency of Americans who like his policies but are repulsed by his unpresidential behavior
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It's not that I don't believe the polls, but the "unprofessional" meme is entirely manufactured
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*"unpresidential"
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I'm not trying to insult him too much but goddamn you have to acknowledge at least half of his problems are self-inflicted.
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No, actually, I think he has a lot of enemies and people who hate his favored positions enough that this would have happened to anyone with similar positions who could have become president.
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